The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: The State of Secrecy Spies and the Media in Britain Richard Norton-Taylor London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2020, £20 h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of changes to the existing procedures would arrive and I had to get the appropriate files out of the cupboard, remove the old pages and insert the new ones. When the British Army ended up in Northern Ireland, they went to their cupboard and took out the file marked ‘insurgency’. Part of the kit […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE
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Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] they could do a post-election opinion poll asking people if they were influenced by the Agency’s work; by the nature of things the work was concealed. Perhaps new techniques will be developed to track the impact of disinformation on target audiences; but those methods, too, would have to remain invisible and untraceable. There is […]

Chameleo: A strange but true story of invisible spies, heroin addiction and Homeland Security by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: Chameleo A strange but true story of invisible spies, heroin addiction and Homeland Security Robert Guffey London and New York: O/R Books, 2015, £11.00/$18.00, p/b http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/chameleo/ In 1989 Harlan Girard was going round the London media trying to interest them in his story. He got no takers but someone suggested Lobster – then one […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] Daily Telegraph or . 2 Paul Winter in The Critic . 
 
 1 3 That is not to say that that Peter Taylor hasn’t achieved something new with this book. He has succeeded in interviewing the final member of the intelligence community (a former MI6 officer, re-employed by MI5) who participated in the […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] finance. Having colonized the economic and political systems of the large 3 James S. Henry and Bill Bradley, The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy (New York: Basic Books, 2005). nation states where most of us live, offshore finance has gone a long way in capturing our attitudes too.’ In his final […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. * new* More Broon At the end of my comment on Gordon Brown (subhead Broon below) I wrote ‘I might take Brown seriously if he offered us just a smidgeon of mea […]

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